Stoneywood Dyce Gain A Narrow Victory over McCrea FS West

An early start in Glasgow for an early start in Stoneywood produced an early finish and a narrow victory for the home side.  Stoneywood won the toss and inserted West on a warm sunny day and a green tinged wicket. Jats soon ran himself out and at 23 Duncan Williams misjudged a delivery and was bowled. At 51 for 2 Stuart Murray who had batted sensibly for 19 was sensationally caught and bowled by George Ninnan . 51 for 3 became 60 for 7 in the 25th over.  Andrew Umeed (23), Ross Brown, Anjan Luthra were all bowled and Dave McNulty was adjudged lbw – a middle order collapse. In the 31st over West were all out for 84  - Gill 5-30 and George Ninnan 4-26.  Although the bowling was tight and the ball moved about considerably there was a distinct lack of application which was to prove decisive later in the afternoon.

At half time Planes were beating Helicopters 19 to 14 but the airport authorities changed the landing direction  to maintain interest amongst the anoracks present.

Stoneywood Dyce were 6-0 at the end of the Pirate’s controversial first over.  Dead Ball or 4?  4!  Gurjit struck with the first ball of his over and he bowled a good first over.  19 for 2 – a first wicket from the Pirate became 40 for 3 in 6 overs as unfortunately Gurjit bowled three front foot no-balls and was badly punished from the resultant free hits. Dave continued to swashbuckle from the Airport end and after 15 overs of the innings SD had collapsed to 64 for 7 (The Pirate – well wound up after the first over – with 5 wickets.) Spegsy had bowled tightly from the other end to complement Dave’s attacking instincts but McCrea FSWest simply had not scored enough runs.  Also they gave away 25 extras in the SD innings which ended when Gordon Goudie hit Andrew Umeed over the sight screen and out the ground  for a worthy 3 wicket victory,

The effort in the field could not be faulted and if the belief which we had had in the field had been there at the start of the match there might possibly have been a different result. Congrats, though, to Dave McNulty for 10 great overs, 5 wickets for 20 runs.

The Planes finally overcame the helicopters by 34 to 21 as heavy showers worked their way round – but not on – the Stoneywood Dyce ground.

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